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Show ( 7° ) (71) then Prince of our time, and perhaps fomeothers, have found better ways of blownng up Lenflarures than with gunpowder ;. which don t_ matte a quarter of the crack and comhuttion, but which are ten times more efl‘ec‘lual. _ it But our colonicr might be Well enough, were not for Dr. Franklin, who has With a brand, lighted from the clouds, fer fire to all America-"No (movem- ments ever care to nckmwtledge the people to be fairly againt'tthem. For whatevernmy be the Jcafe with the opinions of the multitude, 1n abfirufe anti refined matters, which but little concern them, nor do they much trouble thClanlVC‘l about; yet the end, and therefore the touchiifone and trial of all Governmsnt being their welfare and huppinefs, there is hardly common modeliy in alhftieg to defpife and relufe their {enfe concerning their own good and evrl, tlieinown feelings, benefits, or fur'hn'inns. It is in theie‘things, that the voice of the People is {aid to approach. that of their Maker. The lyeophttnts of h/Iinil‘ters, endeavour tlierel‘oreto throw on the artifice and influence of indititluals, all dit‘couttnt, or dit'htisi'aétion of the lu‘olic. iMrJtF'ilkes moves England, and Dr. Franklin America; as it we had here no lecling, but through the tirft, and they nttd there neither eyes, or ears, but by thelnttcr. the match to them. or thefe would heat and fire of themfelves, it they were not. But is not Mr. W.'s Philippic againl't the Do'f tor a capital performance ?-~I am litre that I have not the leall inclination to d6pl‘iCldt6 the ingenu ity of that learned gentleman, whofe argument I have bee n making fo free with. But the being charmed wit h fpruce expreflions, or a iinnrtnefs 0F invec‘tive, Where the {ubjecot makes againlt the privileges or the libertie s of a people, what is it better, than if a parcel of pril ‘oners or oFgalley flaves, were {0 abject as to take a plea fnre in the rattling, or as it were, in the mulic of their chains 1' 1 am drawing towards an end of my career. However I will firll fay fomething to the Americans thenr felves. Iohferve them to charge fometimes on the Britiih fuhjeé‘rs, in general, the meafitres with whi ch they are aggrieved. Herein they do us Wrong. I may venture to aflirm, that there Would not be hurt the hair ofthe head ot‘an American, were it to he vo- ted by all our country. livery one mull remember, the univerfttl fittisl‘ac‘tion produced by the repeal of the {lamp ac't, and it wou‘ll no doubt be the fame again, Were the prefent menihres difc‘harged and remitted. But it often happens, that *eprefentatives and their It were nappy for maul-and, conflituents, are in the motif efl‘ential and the moft im- if adminiflrtttions procured their own votes and majo- portant points, diametrically oppofite to one another. Idon't pretend to account for this. It is a finality. rities with as mucli thirtieth, as the voice of the people is Ct, mmonly ohtained, I wonder, Whether We thould then have heard (tinny governmeutin Europe indebted in the hint or en hundred and forty millions fierling; or he :1: this moment under the alarm oFa parent flare attaching its own colonies, or of a great empire [citing nt tt'orlriits fleets and armies only to throw the parts of irfell' into mil‘chiel' and coul'uiion? It is idle and childiln to be crying or: againil this or that private perion. The truzh is, that whenever governments heap up cutttbuftihles, there tvil always be found a hand to p111: t to But the Americans {hould confider, that twodii erent parts ofa country may be opprefl‘ed by one and the fame hand. Adminiiirations have been fqumdering and running us in debt at home, until our vhole {uhfiance is walled and confirmed. it may now be coming to their turn. But proczz/ a jaw, pretzel a fin'zzzzi‘h'. Great Britain is lirll brought to its extremity. Let any of our dependencies compare their L urthens with ours, and then complain of the nation, if they {hall find that ours are the lig‘h er. Idon't mean to make n merit. 1 Hum t) |
